THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 147 



I was led into the error of refering the Kentucky specimens to 

 AsycJma ? by getting hold of the wrong figures of the neuration — com- 

 bining the neuration of Bedellia somidentelhx with the external characters 

 of Batrachedra. 



PERIMEDE. 



P. erranscUa Cham. 



In perfectly fresh specimens each of the four small tufts of raised 

 scales on the fore wings is seen to be margined behind with white ; there 

 is a minute blackish spot at the extreme tip margined before with white, a 

 minute white costal spot containing raised scales at the beginning of the 

 ciliae, and a row of minute white specks of raised scales around the base 

 of the cilia2. On the under side these spots are seen reversed, that is, the 

 scales around the base of the ciliae are whitish, and the specks dark 

 brown ; there is also a minute brown spot at the apex of the hind wings 

 on the under surface. The tarsi are brown, prettily annulate with 

 white. 



The account given at p. 51, v. 6, of the neuration is slightly incorrect ; 

 there is (at least in some specimens) one more subcostal branch than is 

 there stated, in the fore wings. The neuration of both wings is thus 

 almost exactly that of Laverna Sfaintotii, as figured Ins. Brit., v. j. The 

 wings are, however, a little more elongate and are narrower. It is closely 

 allied to Lavenia, but the palpi are nearly as slender as those of the figure 

 . of Aiiybia langietia (Ins. Brit., v. j), though much shorter — rather like 

 those of Chrysoclista liniella (loc. cit.) Its position in repose is singular 

 for an insect so near to laverna ; the face is applied to the surface on 

 which it rests, and the abdomen and wings elevated as it rests on the two 

 anterior pairs of legs, with the third pair drawn up alongside the abdomen 

 under the wings — more like an Argyrcsthia than a Laverna. 



Ravages of White Ants. — The Commissioner of Agriculture 

 recently received from the Consul General at Monrovia, Liberia, a box 

 of twelve books, principally United States public documents, that had 

 been badly damaged by white ants, in several cases more than a third 

 of the book having been destroyed entirely. The damage was done in 

 the space of a few months while the Consul was absent. It is stated in 

 the letter accompanying, that to preserve books and papers from the 

 ravages of this insect, they must be kept free from dust and well exposed 

 to the air. — Field and Forest. 



